Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show seven destroyed bombers on the tarmac at a Russian air base in eastern Siberia.

The remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region.

Wildfires have raged in Russia’s Ural mountains and in Siberia this week, with authorities promising to swiftly contain them.

A new study uses ancient DNA to offer a rare snapshot of Neanderthal family ties.

Russian emergency officials say over 830 people have been evacuated from a summer camp in the southern Urals because of a forest fire raging just half a mile away.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged authorities to strengtnen their efforts to fight wildfires in northeastern Siberia, calling the situation “unprecedented.”.

Russian authorities have expanded a state of emergency in northeast Siberia to bring in outside resources to combat wildfires that have engulfed the vast region.

Russian authorities have started to evacuate two villages in a vast region of Siberia where 155 active forest fires are burning.

Thousands of wildfires engulf broad expanses of Russia each year, destroying forests and shrouding territories in acrid smoke.

The Russian military has used its heavy-lift transport planes to help douse wildfires in Siberia.

Emergency officials say a small Russian passenger plane with 18 people on board made an emergency landing Friday in Siberia after both engines failed, with the captain breaking his leg but no one else suffering serious injuries.

In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, firefighters work at the site of fire at a nursing home in the town of Borovsky, western Siberia, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Russian authorities say seven people have died in the fire at a nursing home in western Siberia. (Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations press service via AP)MOSCOW – A fire at a nursing home in Siberia killed seven people on Saturday, Russian authorities said. The fire took place at the private home for the elderly in the Tyumen region of western Siberia. Local officials said the home in the town of Borovsky wasn't registered with authorities.

In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at September 2020's annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19 doesn't kill us, climate change will. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)JOHANNESBURG – In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19 doesn't kill us, climate change will. Meanwhile, the U.N. global climate summit has been postponed to late 2021. That hasn’t stopped countries, from slowly sinking island nations to parched African ones, from speaking out. World powers cannot shirk their financial commitments to fighting climate change during the pandemic, Remengesau said, even as economies are battered.

Freak natural disasters most with what scientists say likely have some kind of climate change connection seem to be everywhere in the crazy year 2020. But experts say well probably look back and say those were the good old days, when disasters werent so wild. Its going to get A LOT worse, Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said Wednesday. Thats because what's happening now is just the type of crazy climate scientists anticipated 10 or 20 years ago. Just as the future of climate disasters is hard to fathom now.

MOSCOW Russias forest fire aerial protection service says forest fires in Siberia have grown nearly fivefold over the past week. The fires come amid a notable heat wave in parts of the sprawling region. A high temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 F) was reported a week ago in the town of Verkhoyansk,. According to figures reported Saturday by Avialesookhrana, Russia's agency for aerial forest fire management, 1.15 million hectares (2.85 million acres) were burning in Siberia in areas that cannot be reached by firefighters. The worst-hit area is the Sakha Republic, where Verkhoyansk is located, with 929,000 hectares (2.295 million acres) burning.

Eight Russian servicemembers were killed in an apparent shooting spree at a military base in Siberia on Friday, Russia's top law enforcement agency said in a statement. (CNN) - Eight Russian servicemembers were killed in an apparent shooting spree at a military base in Siberia on Friday, Russia's top law enforcement agency said in a statement. A suspect in the case, Private Ramil Shamsutdinov, a member of Unit 54160, had been detained, the Investigative Committee said. According to the Russian defense ministry, the shooting occurred at around 6:20 p.m. local time during a change in a guard shift. A commission of the Russian defense ministry, headed by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov, flew to the scene of the incident, and an investigation is underway.

- Unlike its geographical poles, Earth's magnetic poles that serve as the foundation of our navigation are actively moving. The magnetic field reverses its polarity every several hundred thousand years, where the magnetic north pole resides at the geographic South Pole. In a new study, researchers discovered that the last field reversal took 22,000 years to complete -- much longer than anticipated or expected, the researchers said. The details within those samples revealed how Earth's magnetic field has weakened, shifted partially, stabilized and reversed over a million years. However, the researchers believe that we would have generations to adapt for long periods of instability in the magnetic field.

Google Maps(CNN) - Two crew members were killed but all 43 passengers survived after a Russian aircraft crashed and burst into flames during an emergency landing at an airport in Siberia. The Angara Airlines flight slid off the runway for around a hundred meters (328 ft) after attempting the landing at 10:24 a.m. local time Thursday (10.24 p.m. The plane's inspector pilot, Kolomin Vladimir Ilyich, and the flight mechanic, Bardanov Oleg Vladimirovich, were killed, while a co-pilot and a flight attendant survived. "At 10:24 local time, the plane made an emergency landing at the airport in Nizhneangarsk. The pilot killed had 34 years' experience and over 15,000 hours of flying, the airline added.